Inmate advocates want Kansas to tap into money for more college prison courses
New grant funding will help more inmates go to college. Additional money flowing to higher education could create more class options.
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New grant funding will help more inmates go to college. Additional money flowing to higher education could create more class options.
More than half a million people could benefit from the reinstatement of the Pell Grant for incarcerated students in July, and efforts are underway to start college-in-prison programs for this group.
Inmates at Jessup Correctional Institution, one of Maryland’s state prisons, will now be able to get a college education from Bowie State University, an HBCU.
EAST MOLINE – Earlier this month was the first week of fall semester classes for college students across the state – including 30 students enrolled in the
State program allows Illinois prisoners to take college courses with federal grants